e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Publisher Weekly Review
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
Xu, Anhua.
Subjects
Chinese restaurants -- Canada.
Cooking, Chinese.
Cooking, Canadian.
Food habits -- Canada.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Xu, Anhua.
by title:
Chop suey nation : t...
by call number:
647.9571 X8c
Search the Web
Xu, Anhua.
Chinese restaurants -- Canada.
Cooking, Chinese.
Cooking, Canadian.
Food habits -- Canada.
MARC Display
Chop
suey
nation
: the
Legion
Cafe
and
other
stories
from
Canada
's
Chinese
restaurants
/ Ann Hui.
by
Xu, Anhua.
Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd., 2019.
Call #:
647.9571 X8c
Subjects
Chinese
restaurants
--
Canada
.
Cooking,
Chinese
.
Cooking, Canadian.
Food habits --
Canada
.
ISBN:
9781771622226 (pbk.)
Description:
288 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"The suprising history and vibrant present of small-town
Chinese
restaurants
from Victoria, BC to Fogo Island, NL"--Cover.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across
Canada
, from Victoria to Fogo Island, to write about small-town
Chinese
restaurants
and the families who run them. It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included--her parents had run their own
Chinese
restaurant, The
Legion
Cafe
, before she was born. This discovery, and the realization that there was so much of her own history she didn't yet know, set her on a time-sensitive mission: to understand how, after generations living in a poverty-stricken area of Guangdong, China, her family had somehow wound up in
Canada
.
Chop
Suey
Nation
: The
Legion
Cafe
and
Other
Stories
from
Canada
's
Chinese
Restaurants
weaves together Hui'
s
own family history--from her grandfather'
s
decision to leave behind a wife and newborn son for a new life, to her father'
s
path from cooking in rural China to running some of the largest "Western" kitchens in Vancouver, to the unravelling of a closely guarded family secret--with the
stories
of dozens of
Chinese
restaurant owners from coast to coast. Along her trip, she meets a Chinese-restaurant owner/small-town mayor, the owner of a
Chinese
restaurant in a Thunder Bay curling rink, and the woman who runs a restaurant alone, 365 days a year, on the very remote Fogo Island. Hui also explores the fascinating history behind "
chop
suey
" cuisine, detailing the invention of classics like "ginger beef" and "Newfoundland chow mein," and
other
uniquely Canadian fare like the "
Chinese
pierogies" of Alberta. Hui, who grew up in authenticity-obsessed Vancouver, begins her journey with a somewhat disparaging view of small-town "fake
Chinese
" food. But by the end, she comes to appreciate the essentially
Chinese
values that drive these restaurants--perseverance, entrepreneurialism and deep love for family. Using her own family'
s
story as a touchstone, she explores the importance of these
restaurants
in the country'
s
history and makes the case for why
chop
suey
cuisine should be recognized as quintessentially Canadian."--From publisher.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Alderney Gate Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
647.9571 X8c
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
647.9571 X8c
Core Collection - Adult
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Tantallon Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
647.9571 X8c
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.